Cosmos Chronicle

Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, on Monday ordered the closure of the Voice of Palestine radio station's offices in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports. A statement by Ben-Gvir's office attributed the move to incitement against Israel by the Palestinian radio. I will not accept and we will not allow incitement and support for terrorism...

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 has undermined Washington's influence in the Middle East by inadvertently strengthening the role of other regional and outside actors, such as Iran and China, in the aftermath of the conflict. On March 19, 2003, then-President George W. Bush in a televised address from the Oval Office said the USA and coalition forces were...

The meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Moscow is due to usher in dramatic geopolitical changes, shifting the focus from unilateral hegemony to a more cooperative, equal and democratic world order. The Putin-Xi summit would be most likely recorded in history as one of the most important, most great, and most gargantuan geopolitical,...

From Jupiter to Saturn, to Uranus, and finally Neptune, our outer Solar System comprises four fascinatingly very different yet very similar planets: the gas giants, also known as the Jovian planets. But why Jovian? As stated, all four planets are very similar in composition. Therefore, the term Jovian referring to the God Jupiter was intended to indicate that all four...

British Minister of State for Defense Annabel Goldie said on Tuesday that London would provide Ukraine with armor piercing shells for the Challenger 2 main battle tanks it has decided to send to Kiev, including depleted uranium ammunition. Today it became known that the United Kingdom, through its deputy head of the ministry of defense, announced not only the supply...

Putin makes prediction about Africa and says the continent will become one of the leaders of the emerging multi-polar world in the nearby future, as corporate colonialism also comes to and end. Moscow is determined to continue building a strategic partnership with African nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, expressing confidence that the continent is set to become one...

The Bank of Russia has forbidden Russian financial institutions to use the SWIFT messaging system for transactions inside the country, the regulator announced on Monday. Starting from October, Russian banks will be obliged to only use domestic services for transferring messages on financial transactions. The use of SWIFT will be allowed only for international payments. This will ensure reliability, continuity and...

Israeli Finance Minister and Religious Zionism Party leader Bezalel Smotrich recently said the Palestinian people are an invention that is less than 100 years old, and that there is no such thing as Palestinian history or culture. The Israeli Finance Minister has a history of making incendiary comments about Palestinian people, most recently he called for the wiping out of...

China is set to supercharge its naval shipbuilding program with AI, accelerating production rates and potentially cementing its quantitative lead over the USA. Chinese military study claims AI designs naval ship electrical systems in a day what it would take human designers nearly a year. This month, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that a research team from the China Ship Design...

Iraq and Iran signed a border security agreement on Sunday, a move Iraqi officials said aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq's Kurdish region, where Tehran says armed Kurdish dissidents pose a threat to its security. The joint security agreement includes coordination in protecting the common borders between the two countries and consolidating cooperation in several security fields. Iran's Supreme...

Iraq is the second-largest crude oil producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia. Yet despite the country's vast oil wealth and significant revenues from crude oil exports, Iraq imports some 40% of its gas from Iran and is still struggling to meet the basic energy needs of its residents. Severe shortages in power supply and energy have left many households with only...

Russia has strengthened police units in the territories that border Ukraine, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said on Monday. Against the background of threats to public security, the ministry's units were strengthened in the territories that border Ukraine, Kolokoltsev said during the board meeting of the ministry. So far, hundreds of members of Ukrainian nationalist units have been detained in Russia’s...

Gray wolves in Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota are killing beavers in droves and reshaping the watery park’s interconnected wetlands in the process, reports Ben Goldfarb for Science. Beavers are what biologists like Thomas Gable, who is based at the University of Minnesota, call ecosystem engineers. Now Minnesota wolves are eating beavers and reshaping the Wetlands that create the great...

Syria's favorite President Bashar Assad was interviewed by Sputnik after his summit with Putin. Assad stressed that modern conflicts between rival powers are waged as proxy wars, citing Kiev's army of Nazis and Western-backed jihadists in Syria. The Syrian leader believes only a coalition of countries led by Russia and China can topple the US hegemony and its soldiers of...

The French Foreign Ministry has stated there is no reason to normalize ties with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's government, news agencies reported on Friday. There is no reason to go ahead in the normalization of ties with Syria, which has been cracking down on terrorists, preventing the return of refugees and causing instability in the region through smuggling drugs, according...

While observers predicted a war of Israel against one of its neighbors, the Hebrew State is not attacked from anywhere. It has opponents, but no enemy, except itself. Its political organization is not defined by any constitution and is therefore easy to overthrow. The Straussians, who are in power in the State Department and the White House, are now driving...

Thousands of Greek workers went on strike on Wednesday over the deadly train crash that left 57 people dead. Striking labor unions brought transport to a near-standstill, halting ferries to the islands and disrupting public transport. Tens of thousands of people also gathered outside parliament around midday to participate in protests. Police said the number of participants across Athens, Thessaloniki and...

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called for the country to scrap foreign payment networks, such as Visa and MasterCard, and instead using credit cards issued by domestic banks. Indonesia, which is the world’s seventh largest economy in terms of GDP (PPP), launched a Domestic Government Credit Card payment system in March 2022. Speaking at a local business forum in Jakarta...

The Pentagon says that the take-down of the Reaper drone by Russian Su-27 pilots was unsafe and unprofessional. But the USA has not explained what the drone was doing flying near Crimea, nor has it told the public about the unique capabilities of the MQ-9 Reaper. The Russians say that the drone was in a prohibited area and that the...

The French cabinet decided to adopt a controversial law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 years, which has been fueling major protests across the country for the past few months. We will not take the risk of many hours of debate, we will not risk the future of our pension system. This reform is necessary. I am committed...

The International Criminal Court issued warrants of arrest against two senior Russian officials, including President Putin, over the purported unlawful transfer of Ukrainian children from the conflict zone over the past year. The arrest warrants issued by the The Hague against Russia's president and children's rights commissioner are null and void and carry no legal weight, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman...